Some weeks ago, and it might have coincided with the start of the hunting season on the 1st of November, I was asked by a member of our local historical society whether it would be possible to map all the fox coverts in County Kilkenny. The person who asked is the archivist for the historical society, and someone might have contacted her about the topic.

Around that time, I was working on mapping all the buildings in Co. Meath as part of OSM Ireland’s project to map all the buildings. I never just map buildings, but during that task, I had added quite a few fox coverts which I had seen on the British War Office map. I had used either name=Fox Covert or old_name=Fox Covert, depending on whether the area was still wooded on current imagery or not. I did not know anything about fox coverts, but I thought that these place names should be recorded.

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Buzón para cartas a Papá Noel en el mercadillo del Muelle Uno, Navidad 2023. Fuente: trabajo propio (CC BY-SA 4.0) disponible en Wikimedia Commons.

Ayer pasé frente al colegio Gibraljaire y pude comprobar que ya estaban colocando la decoración navideña del centro. También estaban instalado junto al colegio uno de los buzones para cartas a los Reyes Magos que el Ayuntamiento de Málaga estrenó el año pasado. En el Parque de Málaga, empiezan a instalarse los primeros puestos del mercadillo navideño. Y en la calle Larios, el tradicional alumbrado.

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Pista ng Mapa 2023 is a blast!

Over the course of three days in Tacloban City, Leyte the event brought together local YouthMapper chapters, open data experts, and enthusiasts with a shared passion for open mapping, open data, and open source.

As an auditor and member of Viscan YouthMappers, a local chapter based at Visayas State University in Baybay, Leyte, I had the pleasure of participating in this vibrant gathering. In the picture below, you can see me with 11 of my fellow mappers from our organization.

DAY 1

Ms. Feye kicked off the event with her preliminary remarks, setting the tone for what turned out to be an inspiring and informative series of talks. Following her, Mr. Mikko took the stage, sharing his journey in the field. Interestingly, he featured photos of cats, adding a unique and memorable touch to his presentation.

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In 2022, I was given the opportunity to expand my skills in leadership and mapping through the She Leads and She Inspires program organized by the Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific. More importantly, the project proposal I co-wrote with another champion from Nepal on the cultural application of mapping was selected and granted support by the hub. Outlined below are my experience working on this project.

The Project

The problem lies in the lack of accessible information regarding the rich stories and histories, the glory they once carried, and how all these affected the current scenario of an ancient town in Kathmandu, Nepal, called Handigaun, and the developing smart city of Brgy. Poblacion of Tagum City, Philippines. After experiencing natural and man-made disasters like fires and earthquakes that destroyed most of the communities’ built identity, concrete structures and the widening of roads also puts the authenticity of the communities into question. Since OSM is a major resource used by planners, architects, potential tourists, and conservationists, incorporating and mapping critical information as well as ensuring that these can be conveyed in an effective and efficient manner will pose great potential in aiding social development through historical and cultural understanding and reinforcing community resilience by safeguarding its identity for generations to come.

Brgy. Magugpo Poblacion is located within the city’s center and witness to the unfolding history of Tagum City. With historical landmarks on the verge of being erased from the city’s identity due to the onslaught of modernization, there has been a need to rekindle the population’s understanding and interest towards the city’s history. By putting emphasis on the importance of spaces and identified points of interests, this project aims to encourage the development of the city’s identity by conducting cultural mapping activities.

The Journey

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I’ve given a talk about the state of mapping of hiking routes in Europe at this month’s SotM-EU. A few people have asked for the slides, so here they are:

Hiking Routes - Past, Present and Future - SotM-EU 2023

I’m sorry if the slides lack some context for those who have not seen the talk. I hope there will be video recordings of the talk at some point.

Привет! Летом 2023 года, было, к сожалению, обнаружено, что 80% территории Кудрово смещено относительно реальных координат. Многие детали нарисованы либо крайне приблизительно или по битым источникам. Также, есть ряд неактуальностей, которые тяжело искать, из-за повышенной подробности [обратная сторона медали :(]

Решение: в течении 9 месяцев собирать треки по местности по контуру района, там где минимальные искажения от высоких зданий. Далее пройтись двор за двором, сверяя реальность и карту и таким образом “вылечить” карту.

In the early days of OSM, when the map was formless and empty, mappers in the United States conducted data imports without much discussion, because there were just not a lot of people to discuss with.

One example is a series of imports of USGS GNIS data. This is point data from the United States Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System. Some of this data was very useful, for example to populate the map with place nodes for smaller towns. But there’s also a lot of data that was not very good, and a lot of it is still on the map today.

One example is the mines layer, imported with the tag gnis:feature_type=Mine. For starters, a lot of these nodes represent historic mines, of which the United States has many, especially in the West. But they were imported as landuse=quarry, a tag that should be used for nodes in the first place.

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@SPwKA

Grata! Thank you!

Agradecemos a participação daqueles(as) que assistiram ao evento no canal no YouTube, que ministraram palestras e que organizaram mapatonas!

O evento GIS DAY 2023 é uma iniciativa do IVIDES.org, como parte do evento internacional #osmgeoweek, ou OpenStreetMap Awareness Week, sendo realizado em parceria com YouthMappers internacional, TeachOSM/HOT e HUB YouthMappers Rio de Janeiro.

Mapatonas

Há três mapatonas ativas! Convocamos os(as) mapeadores(as) do OpenStreetMap a se juntarem a nós, neste grande esforço de mapeamento colaborativo das áreas de interesse do estado do Rio de Janeiro!

• Mapatona Maricá - Projetos 1529, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1538, 1539 e 1542

• Mapatona Mosaico das Vargens - Projeto 1560

• Mapatona Seropédica - Projeto 1558

Vídeos do evento

• Palestras na sessão ao vivo do GIS DAY 2023 - Link YouTube

• Apresentação dos capítulos YouthMappers do Rio de Janeiro - Link YouTube

Materiais do GIS DAY 2023

Acesse as fotos e o sumário do evento em PDF, com as respostas às perguntas.

Para entrar em contato

A/C Dra. Raquel Dezidério Souto (+55)21 97714 7667 | [email protected] | [email protected]. Saber mais sobre: IVIDES.org e HUB YouthMappers Rio de Janeiro.

Programa das palestras ministradas em 17 NOV 2023

Mediadora: Dra. Raquel Dezidério Souto

PALESTRA ESPECIAL 1 - Link vídeo Panorama Geral da Defesa Civil de São Gonçalo em 2023 Major Felipe Nascimento de Assumpção Subsecretário de Defesa Civil de São Gonçalo (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)

PALESTRA ESPECIAL 2 - Link vídeo O processo de construção da Gestão Integrada de Risco de Desastre - caso Maricá Major Wellington Silva de Oliveira Coordenador de Defesa Civil de Maricá (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)

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I work for the Commons. I work for the common good. But no, I will not release my edits under a “Public Domain” license.

Anyone can use my work, but under my terms. The ODbL terms. These are fair terms. It’s simple, credit us. And if you want to mix “your” data with ours, honour our time and our labour. Release it under the ODbL.

I don’t work Facebook or Amazon. I do not provide free labour for US tech companies. I am happy for you to use my data, but under my terms. The ODbL. No other license.

I want to make the world a better place. Not make a few Americans richer.

Avenida Brigadeiro Luis Antonio 100% numerada

https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?DaSchmUh

On, Friday 3rd Nov 2023 at 11:47 PM NPT midnight a strong earthquake struck the western area of Jajarkot,Nepal with witnesses saying houses in the area collapsed causing several deaths and damaged. The shock was experienced as far as New Delhi, India, shook. 154 confirmed deaths and 364 injuries are reported by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority(NDRRMA). The epicentre lies in Karnali Province, Nepal. 26,557 houses are completely damaged whereas 35,455 houses are partially damaged.

Nepal’s National Seismological Centre said the quake was a magnitude 6.4 but the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) later downgraded the magnitude to 5.7 and the U.S. Geological Survey pegged it as a magnitude 5.6. Earthquakes have been going on continuously for some time now, with the epicenter in different places of western Nepal. Geologists say that there has not been a big earthquake for a long time, so there is a lot of seismic energy.

To summarize the major activities that we have undertaken after the Jajarkot Earthquake 2023:

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Last weekend I attended State of the Map EU 2023. I had a lot of fun there! Some random things to remember:

• The OSM community is very friendly and welcoming. I made a lot of friends.
• Being at the event gave me some insights into the history of OSM and the future. An interesting development is the realization of many companies that creating and maintaining their own map is too expensive, they need OSM. At the same time, they have problems with the laisser-faire approach of OSM and there is a push for standardization and more professionalism.
• During the social night (loud music, drinks) I was able to whip out my laptop and receive an impromptu JOSM workshop, where I learned how to create relations with the venerable tool.
• Luke and I gave a talk on MapLibre. Contrary to our expectations, less than half of the people at the event knew about the project. So our advocacy efforts were not in vain.
• I met the delegation from Geovelo, they turn out to be MapLibre Native users.
• Antwerp has a pretty interesting bike-sharing system.
• I rode a Brompton for the first time.
• Organic Maps and OsmAnd are not competitors. This is not an original thought from me, but a conclusion made by the developers from both projects, who attended the event. OsmAnd has a lot features and is mainly for power users, Organic Maps has a focus on being easy to use.
• If I ever have a project that uses a certain tag, I can add that project to the list of projects that use that tag on taginfo, e.g. https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/building#projects
• OSM has a “shoestring budget” and has one full-time paid position (DevOps). Crazy (impressive)!

I am continuously surprised by how few people outside of the community know the story of OpenStreetMap. Coming into this community from a world of writers and communicators who spend their days spinning up stories–some of them more worthy than others–sometimes feels like visiting another planet. For writers, the worst crime is what old time newspaper editors used to call “burying the lede”, meaning hide the thing that makes the story interesting. OSM might just be the biggest buried lede in the history of storytelling.

It’s surprisingly hard to tell a good story. Everyone can type an email, but not everyone can make it interesting enough to read. Stories tend to have a “beginning, middle and end,” but so do research reports, tax forms, and parking tickets. Facts and data can add up to a story, but not without interpretation. Telling someone “about” something is not a story, either. If I tell you that the Lord of the Rings trilogy is about a hobbit who travels to the ends of the world to get rid of a magic ring, would you know what happened in the story?

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I could really use some help with this question

The published app is here

A short overview: the app page is empty but in the dev tools, if I hover the tag containing my map the correct preview does pop up !

Why the main page doesn’t show it ?

What is going on here ?

If you know anything about front end, please take a look !

Pour le Capitole du Libre, nous avons organisé avec les autres Toulousains un stand dans le village associatif, comme l’année dernière. Cette année, il n’y avait ni atelier, ni conférence autour d’OSM. Impossible de remettre la main sur le kakémono de l’année dernière, heureusement Vincent en avait un deuxième. C’est désormais moi qui en ai la garde. J’avais fait une demande de swag sur le forum, mais cette année ma demande est restée lettre morte. Il nous restait des stickers de l’année dernière qui ont suffi à gérer les demandes. Cette année pas d’ordinateur de programmer pour faire des démos, je venais en train et je n’avais pas envie de m’emmerder avec un écran. Mais Julien en a prêté un car Liliane est venue avec une machine. Nous étions voisins du stand OSGeo-fr. Pas mal de monde est passé sur le stand avec toujours de bonnes questions :

• Comment êtes-vous financé ?
• Quelle application pour quel usage ?
• Comment puis-je contribuer ?
• C’est quoi OSM ?
• Avez-vous des API pour XXX ?
• Comment Faire YYY ?

Je dois avouer que la proximité du stand OSgeo a permis de faire un peu de ping-ong sur certaines questions (Donc QGIS c’est mieux pour ça, sinon voir aussi Lizmap).

Comme dit précédemment, nous étions moins organisés et donc moins nombreux sur le stand, mais lorsque nous étions plusieurs, nous avons bien échangé. J’ai ajouté une application de plus sur mon mobile pour OSM : everydoor. Je vais regarder dans les jours qui viennent comment la prendre en main.

Merci à l’orga de nous avoir laissé un stand. Merci à ceux qui sont venus tenir le stand avec moi. Merci aux visiteurs pour leur intérêt.

Hii beloved OSM Mappers, 18th November, 2023 is a signifies momentous occasion for Timor-Leste as we officially launched the > Timor-Leste OpenStreetMap Community with the Association of Geographic Information System in Timor-Leste. We extend our sincere appreciation to all the esteemed presenters whose insights and perspectives have enriched this launched session, shedding light on the significance and advantages of open-source platforms like OSM.

Figure 1: We are happy in celebration our community is launched.

Themed for this event is "OSM Community Meet-Up and Official Launching 2023", this event stands as a pivotal part of our year-long OSM activities, inviting diverse voices to converge, share advice, and collectively drive the development of OSM in Timor-Leste.

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Euh, bonjour? Non je sais pas…

Enfin bref, je mappe principalement sur Seraing depuis un peu plus d’un an (ça arrive de m’aventurer ailleurs… parfois) et depuis environ six mois, j’enregistre parfois une session OSM (comprendre une changeset quoi) et de la poster sur Youtube pour mes… “"”nombreux””” abonnés. Assez vite, j’ai commencé une série qui s’appelle de manière très originale “Améliorons Seraing (sur OpenStreetMap)” qui est ma principale, mais j’ai aussi des sorties VTT qui sont également utilisées pour faire des modifications ici et sur chemins.be par exemple (souvent en tout cas).

On m’a conseillé de faire un peu la promo de ces vidéos ici et vu que je ne fais rien avec ce “journal”, pourquoi ne pas essayer après tout?

Pour le moment, je fais pas mal de micromapping et quelques updates du côté d’Ougrée depuis l’ouverture du nouveau tronçon du boulevard urbain de Seraing (dont j’ai appris l’ouverture à la circulation et le nom ici, no joke).

Je vais pas mettre toutes mes anciennes vidéos ici bien sûr, juste les dernières :

Améliorons Seraing (sur OpenStreetMap) - Épisode 11 (Seraing et ses “problèmes”) - Une session où je dégage le plus de “problèmes” et demandes de correction possibles

Ce cycliste part en quête de bornes SNCV à Seraing pour les ajouter sur OpenStreetMap - Sortie VTT avec un objectif assez clair je pense ;)

Ce cycliste continue sa quête de bornes SNCV et retrouve une vieille connaissance à Boncelles - La suite de la vidéo précédente

Améliorons Seraing (sur OpenStreetMap) - Épisode 12 (L’art du micromapping) - Un peu de micromapping à l’Hôpital du Bois de l’Abbaye

Ce sérésien et sa quête absurde pour faire renaître le sentier vicinal 54 de la Chatqueue (Partie 1) - Si vous vous demandez pourquoi il y a un sentier non-accessible à la Chatqueue, voici un début de réponse

Améliorons Seraing (sur OpenStreetMap) - Épisode 13 (Micromappons le Bois de l’Abbaye) - Je vous avais prévenu ;)

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We care about having the best data. We care about having best the map. We care about having the best mapping community.

“We” is doing a lot here. Honestly, I don’t care about the render. Sure I’ve wanted some things rendered before, sure I’ve been emotional when it didn’t magically happen. But I’ve only though about rendering for a few minutes. People care a lot more then me, in retrospect, I’m sorry. I should have trusted you.

Honestly, I don’t care about the intricacies of tagging/”schemas”. Sure I’ve gotten emotional on the mailing list, and I’ve even talked about “you” (the list) behind your back. But you’ve thought about this more than me, I should have trusted you. Sorry.

I have thought a lot about the quality of our data, it’s not perfect. About the usability of our data, there are issues. About the accessibility of our data, it could easier. But actually we are doing pretty good. We are even doing better than the commercial datasets.

So trust the people that care the most, support us, encourage us, give us data and tooling, but most importantly, don’t get in our way. We’ve got this.